Years by Open Group at Dello Scompiglio: Time, Memory, and the Echoes of War

The Cultural Association Dello Scompiglio presents Years, an exhibition by the Ukrainian collective Open Group, curated by Angel Moya Garcia. After the success at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, where they represented Poland with Repeat after me II, artists Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, and Anton Varga return to Italy with a new site-specific project conceived for the spaces of the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio near Lucca.

Open Group (Yuriy-Biley,-Pavlo-Kovach,-Anton-Varga), photo Jacopo Salvi

The work emerges from the background of a decade of war. Since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and fueled the conflict in Donbass, Ukraine has lived through years of occupation, resistance, and devastation. The full-scale invasion launched in February 2022 has since turned into a prolonged conflict, marked by static fronts, immense losses, and fragile hopes of mediation. As of 2025, the war continues without a clear end in sight. According to UN reports, the true number of victims remains incalculable — a tragic measure of lives lost and stories erased.

Within this reality, Years transforms remembrance into presence. The installation unfolds through a constellation of video works in which projections of engraved years on tombstones expand into space, their slow rhythm of light becoming a metaphor for time, loss, and persistence. The passage of light across stone marks the flow of years, but also the fracture of human connections torn apart by war — the fragility of memory, and its stubborn refusal to fade.

The exhibition translates the devastation of conflict into a tangible, sensory experience. Numbers and statistics dissolve into a field of light and sound, where memory becomes almost corporeal. Behind each image vibrates the presence of countless lives — suspended between absence and survival, between silence and testimony.

For Open Group, Years is not only an artistic installation but an act of witnessing. Preserving what war tries to erase, the work opens a space of awareness, mourning, and resistance. It gives form to what remains unspeakable — the persistence of humanity within the ruins of history.

Open Group, Years (2025), Courtesy Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio

The Dello Scompiglio Project, created and directed by Cecilia Bertoni, combines contemporary art, landscape, and environmental sustainability in a multidisciplinary space dedicated to the dialogue between artistic practice and nature. The Tenuta hosts exhibitions, performances, residencies, and educational programs that merge art and ecology.

Founded in 2012 in Lviv, Open Group works across visual art and curatorial practice. Their work explores collective authorship, social dynamics, and the intersections between personal experience and global crises. Their projects have been shown at major institutions including the Venice Biennale, Bozar Brussels, Zachęta National Gallery, High Line New York, and Belvedere 21 Vienna, among others.

Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga) Warszawa, Poland 2024, Photo by Piotr Czyż _ Zacheta archive

Years at Dello Scompiglio stands as a luminous meditation on time and remembrance — a space where the traces of war, rather than fading, continue to resonate.

Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio

Via di Vorno, 67, Vorno - Capannori

Date

15 novembre - 1 marzo 2026

Edvard Munch’s Expressionist Revolution at the Candiani Cultural Center

From October 30, 2025, to March 1, 2026, the Candiani Cultural Center in Mestre presents MUNCH. The Expressionist Revolution, a major exhibition curated by Elisabetta Barisoni and organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

The project takes Edvard Munch as a starting point to explore the legacy of Expressionism and its explosive power — a force that has traversed more than a century of art history and continues to shape contemporary sensibility.

Edvard Munch, Chiaro di luna,1895

“I will no longer paint interiors with men reading and women sewing. I will paint living people who breathe, feel, suffer, and love.”

This famous statement by Munch encapsulates his pictorial revolution: an expressive urgency that breaks the boundaries between art and life, opening the way to a representation of the human being in all their fragility and existential tension.

The exhibition, exceptionally hosted on the third floor of the Candiani Center, originates from a precious nucleus preserved at the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna at Ca’ Pesaro — four graphic works by Munch (Anguish, The Urn, The Girl and Death, Ashes) — and unfolds through seven thematic sections. The itinerary places the Norwegian artist in dialogue with the movements that preceded and followed him: from Symbolism to Post-Impressionism, and from there to the Secessions of Munich, Vienna, and Berlin, where Munch became a central figure.

The Berlin Secession, founded in 1898, found one of its key sparks in Munch himself. His 1892 exhibition was violently attacked by traditionalist critics, provoking an irreversible rift that would pave the way for the avant-gardes. Alongside Munch, the exhibition presents works by Franz von Stuck, Max Klinger, Max Liebermann, Albin Egger-Lienz, as well as Italian artists such as Arturo and Alberto Martini, interpreters of a visionary and unsettling Symbolism.

The exhibition continues with a dialogue between the Norwegian master and the leading figures of European Symbolism — from Odilon Redon to Arnold Böcklin, from Félicien Rops to James Ensor — together with Italian artists like Adolfo Wildt, Cesare Laurenti, and Ugo Valeri, who reinterpreted those languages in dramatic and dreamlike ways.

Edvard-Munch, Two Old Men, 1910

A significant section is devoted to Munch’s legacy in German Expressionist printmaking, from the Die Brücke group with Erich Heckel to the next generation of Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, who translated the traumas of the twentieth century into raw, incisive imagery.

In the final section, The Contemporary Scream, the exhibition reaches the present day: from Renato Guttuso and Zoran Mušič, who bear witness to the violence of history, to Emilio Vedova, Ennio Finzi, Mike Nelson, Tony Oursler, Marina Abramović, and Shirin Neshat, all interpreters of a pain that still runs through humanity.

Exhibition view, foto Nico Covre

MUNCH. The Expressionist Revolution is thus a journey through the genealogy of modern unease — but also a reflection on the enduring vitality of Munch’s language. As curator Barisoni writes, “Munch’s scream has never been silenced: it is a sound that still resonates in the folds of the present, reminding us that art, to remain alive, must continue both to wound and to heal.”

Centro Culturale Candiani

P.le Luigi Candiani 30174, Venezia - Mestre

Date 30 ottobre - 1 marzo 2026

Three Exhibitions in Dialogue at A PICK GALLERY for Turin Art Week 2025

On October 29 at 7 p.m., A PICK GALLERY opens three exhibitions in dialogue: Details Collection, a solo show by Jan Muche; PMI / TRN Tres miradas, un espacio, featuring Aina Albo Puigserver, Robert Ferrer i Martorell, and David Magán; and Lungo la soglia, a solo exhibition by Giuseppe Vassallo.

Jan Muche, Untitled, 2023

Each year, during Turin Art Week, A PICK GALLERY creates a space for dialogue between different artistic languages and geographies. This autumn, the gallery collaborates with Ceravento (Pescara) and Pep Llabrés Art Contemporani (Palma de Mallorca) as part of the exchange project TAG Torino Art Galleries meets Art Palma Contemporani.

During TAG’s Art Night on Saturday, November 1, the gallery will remain open from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.. Additionally, on October 31, November 1, and 2, A PICK GALLERY hosts Art Coffee Breakfast, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., in collaboration with Lavazza.

In Details Collection, Jan Muche presents a series of small-scale works that condense his distinctive language of lines, grids, and chromatic layers. These intimate paintings, inspired by Constructivist aesthetics and modernist architecture, become fragments of larger mental or industrial landscapes — poetic microcosms where order and vibration coexist.

Robert Ferrer i Martorell, Proporcions series, 2022,

The group exhibition PMI / TRN Tres miradas, un espacio explores abstraction as a shared territory among three artists. Aina Albo Puigserver turns geometry into emotion, creating luminous compositions that vibrate between rigor and lyricism. Robert Ferrer i Martorell examines light, structure, and perception through geometric constructions that seem to float in space. David Magán builds transparent installations in colored plexiglass, transforming light into sculptural matter and inviting viewers into a kinetic, immersive experience.

With Lungo la soglia, Giuseppe Vassallo investigates the relationship between body and landscape, between figure and background. His paintings blur identities and boundaries, merging the human with the environment in a continuous oscillation between intimacy and estrangement. Inspired by the architectural sensibility of Carlo Scarpa, the “threshold” here becomes a poetic and transformative space, a passage between interior and exterior, between aesthetic and existential reflection.

Aina Albo Puigserver, Esquivo rayo verde, 2025,

Together, the three exhibitions form a broader reflection on geometry, perception, and the dialogue between spaces — both physical and conceptual. On view until December 6, 2025, they confirm A PICK GALLERY’s role as a vital hub for international artistic exchange during Turin Art Week 2025.

A PICK GALLERY

via Bernardino Galliari 15/C, Torino

Date 29 ottobre - 6 dicembre 2025